Anderson v. Davis

This case was first assigned to Cox, P. J., and he has prepared a statement of the case and an opinion disposing of the question of whether the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. There is division, however, on the question of whether plaintiff made a case to go to the jury on the humanitarian doctrine. We have adopted that portion of the opinion prepared by Cox, P. J., which disposes of the contributory negligence feature; it is as follows:

I. “Action for damages for the death of the wife of plaintiff caused by a train of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway…